Just Minding My Business

Blake Van Leer is an executive and entrepreneur with extensive experience in growth strategies,revenue lift, team building, strategic acquisitions, business development, salesprocesses, customer retention, brand development, ROI, ecommerce and AI toolmanagement.Blake is currently the EVP & GM of Proto AI's eCommerce division, a first of its kind AIproduct, which helps online retailers increase revenue and conversions through autooptimizing product recommendations while personalizing the customer journey.Additionally, he serves as Special Advisor to Kathy Ireland®, where he has helped KathyIreland Worldwide's B2C retail brand scale in sales by providing strategic planning on high level topics, partnerships, acquisitions and technology endeavors.Blake oversaw Kathy's entire online ecommerce ecosystem. Here he led bothkiWW and partner's ecommerce teams. Some of these partnerships included Macys,Zulilly, BHFO, and Neiman Marcus. Blake also advises several other companies in thenonprofit sector, e.g. ChickTech